you could always make us all walk to Jersey or something.
These days you could just knock down all the cell towers everywhere else, tell everyone that's where the smart-phones worked, and they would almost all walk willingly

Had the opportunity to visit the Tippecanoe Battlefield yesterday. (11/7/1811. West Lafayette, IN) Tecumseh, the pragmatist coalition building political visionary, was undermined by his looser, theo-freak brother, 'The Prophet'. Prophet threw off all the rational planning in a fit of fundamentalist religious idiocy and condemned the entire structure of the society. I took away a strong lesson for the GOP going forward.

But only until we find out there is some natural resource in Oklahoma, then we will go back on our word and the Amerindians will have to move to another piece of shit land that nobody wants (maybe Columbus Ohio), well until we find something we want there then it would be time to move again. You know same old.

Here is a 'talking point' prediction should the reservation energy resources become an national issue requiring that special Limbaugh touch. I gonna try my hand at 'Foxscrip'.

"Its never been their land at all? Who do you think paid for all the utilities, everything which makes living possible? They never really owned it, not in the sense that you and I define the term. Besides, the real motivation of the libs trying to confer this mythical 'ownership' is to perpetuate race based giveaway programs and bribe lazy people to vote for them. Its just more of the same divide and conquer we see out of them all the time."

Here is a 'talking point' prediction should the reservation energy resources become an national issue requiring that special Limbaugh touch. I gonna try my hand at 'Foxscrip'.

"Its never been their land at all? Who do you think paid for all the utilities, everything which makes living possible? They never really owned it, not in the sense that you and I define the term. Besides, the real motivation of the libs trying to confer this mythical 'ownership' is to perpetuate race based giveaway programs and bribe lazy people to vote for them. Its just more of the same divide and conquer we see out of them all the time."

he was accused of taking a $7,000 bribe. He then became the first representative in Springfield to be kicked out of office in more than 100 years.
But that was after he had already won the Democratic primary. Smith is fighting the charges in court. And in the meantime, trying to win back his seat.

And from the looks of it, a couple of elk heads led to the downfall of the Illinois lawmaker who was once seen as a rising political star.

Not that the elk heads cost anywhere near $750,000. Most of that grand total — $583,000 or so — was reached, according to court documents, through approximately 3,100 separate purchases the Jacksons made with campaign credit cards between August 2005 and April 2012. In that time, the Jacksons spent $60,857 in campaign funds at restaurants, nightclubs, and lounges; $31,700 on airfare; $16,059 on sports clubs; $17,163 on purchases at tobacco shops; $5,814 on alcohol; $14,513 on dry cleaning; $8,046 on grocery store purchases; and $6,095 at drug stores.

I’m not usually one for polemics. But sometimes polemics is called for. Here goes.

Dear members of the moderate left,

America is suffering from rampant, run-away corporatism and crony capitalism. We are increasingly a plutocracy in which government serves the interests of elite financiers and CEOs at the expense of everyone else.

You know this and you complain loudly about it. But the problem is your fault. You caused this state of affairs. Stop it.

Unlike we libertarianish people, you people actually hold and have been holding significant political power in the US over the past 50 years. What have you done with this power? You’ve greased the corporatist machine every chance you’ve gotten. You’ve made things worse, not better. Our current problems are your fault. You need to stop.

We told you this would happen, but you wouldn’t listen. You complain, rightly, that regulatory agencies are controlled by the very corporations they are supposed to constrain. Well, yeah, we told you that would happen. When you create power—and you people love to create power—the unscrupulous seek to capture that power for their personal benefit. Time and time again, they succeed. We told you that would happen, and we gave you an accurate account of how it would happen.

You complain, perhaps rightly, that corporations are just too big. Well, yeah, we told you that would happen. When you create complicated tax codes, complicated regulatory regimes, and complicated licensing rules, these regulations naturally select for larger and larger corporations. We told you that would happen. Of course, these increasingly large corporations then capture these rules, codes, and regulations to disadvantage their competitors and exploit the rest of us. We told you that would happen.

It’s not rocket science. It’s public choice economics. You recognized, rightly, that public choice economics was a threat to your ideology. So, you didn’t listen, because you didn’t want to be wrong. Public choice predicted that the government programs you created with the goal of fixing problems would often instead exacerbate those problems. Well, the evidence is in. You were wrong and public choice theory was right. If you have any decency, it is time to admit you were wrong and change. Stop making things worse.

I think that many posters here will laugh at that, but for small business owners much of it does ring truth. I'm sure regulatory agencies may subscribe to the idea that they are trying to help the little guy, but in the end regulations that are minor annoyances to the Wallmarts end up killing the Moms and Pops enterprises.

I think that many posters here will laugh at that, but for small business owners much of it does ring truth. I'm sure regulatory agencies may subscribe to the idea that they are trying to help the little guy, but in the end regulations that are minor annoyances to the Wallmarts end up killing the Moms and Pops enterprises.

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Another example of the Middle class blaming everyone but themselves.

What happened to the thread where people around here dumped on small businesses?